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This Is Your Column— You Say It Be Your Own Columnist; This Page Is Wide Open for Your Views. Editor Time * — IK answer to Henry Ford's article In the Indianapolis News of Oct. 20. rating Herbert Hoover as an equal or better President than Abraham Lincoln, we realize that this is some more of his talk for himself and the big boys in the money market. Abraham Lincoln was a true , friend to the masses, worked against the slave driver, and never quit until he freed the slaves. If the voter thinks that Hoover is acting on behalf of the poor, as Abraham Lincoln did, then I will give Henry Ford credit for being a smart man, but Ford, in politics, like Hoover, was first a. Democrat and sailed the ship of peace in the Woodrow Wilson administration, and Herbert Hoover was a Democrat at that time. But Henry Ford shouldn’t think every poor person too dumb to figure this out without his advice on how to vote. Let us poor voters figure for ourselves and vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt and be freed from bondage. AN HONEST THINKER. m m m Editor Timet —

CONSIDERABLE front page emotion is being spent on Florida prison outrages. To be front page news, it must be an extreme case We have many inside page similar cases right here at home, but politics and advertising are crowding the inner pages. Remember, except for the grace of God, or fate, as you choose, you are the victim of such injustice. Our laws are to blame. We hear much regarding disrespect and disregard for law. Can it be that law is not worthy of our honor and worship? Do not be too hasty in criticism of our lawmakers. The poor devils are doing the best they can. A dozen years ago they passed a law. At the time it was hailed as saving the country, but after fair trial we still are divided on justice of this law. Our old religions do not appear to cover the situation, but there is a rainbow in the sky and the two brightest bands of light in this new faith are temperance and tolerance ,in all things. FORREST MOREHART. matt Timm —

IT Is not yet too jate for the “idiots.'’ which Hoover, on May 7, 1912. in the Mining Magazine, railed the average working class, to brush away partisan cobwebs from their credulous minds. If the coming four years under sound Jeffersonian principles, which President Hoover said (in ghost story tone of voice) would mean ruin, then what in the name of logic would four more years of the most evasive President in the Lnited States history do to us?

If the citizens who want a government for the people after experiencing the last four years of inefficient, leadership and unfulfilled promises will not vote for any party other than the G. O. P., then I would like to ask .just what would have to happen to this country before they would change their mind? If nothing can penetrate this obstinate bigotry, perhaps our system of electing leaders is wrong, so why not abolish the other parties and crown Hoover as the first American king and appoint such politicians as • Jim Watson as king jesters, thereby saving the enormous expense of future elections? P. S. a a a Editor Timet — IN your issue of Oct. 17. under the heading of “You Say It.” I read an article signed by a certain “John Phillips,** in which he endeavors to express his unjust and unfair view and criticism, as well as the worthiness of “Five to Receive Italian Medals.’* Mr. Phlillips took the liberty of attacking the worthiness of these five men receiving these medals for their w'ork in advancing Italian culture in Indianapolis. Mr. Phillips also has gone far enough in this erroneous statement to question Dr. Lapenta's discrimination who. in behalf of the Italian government, presented these medals to men w r ho, for thirty or more years, kept the flower of Italian culture alive through many patriotic celebrations, and who. under his guidance and assistance, rendered great services in the allied during the World wft r. The fact that these, live gentlemen are not college graduates or financiers clearly shows that Italy, and the worthy and accredited officers of the king, are on the alert to reward merit and virtue to any worthy citizen. Though a man be "a cook, a tailor, or a fruit vender, this fact does hot necessarily rob him of many altruistic virtues so often lacking in some of our more elevated, or so-called higher class citizens. The good work done in this city by our good friend and priest of the Holy Rosary church. Father Priori, is known to every Italian, as well as every American in Indianapolis, and needs no confirmation from Mr. Phillips. Therefore, the fact that these five worthy Italians were recently honored, does not of itself, in the least, indicate that Father Priori was slighted in his recognition. Mr. Phillips evidently is not ac-

quainted with the Italian situation in Indianapolis. For his information. and for that of others, the best of harmonious and friendly spirit exists among the Italians of Indianapolis. Now. Mr. John Phillips, whoever you are. let us continue to show Dr. Lapenta that, instead “of failing miserably." we rely on his good judgment in his choice of worthy citizens to whom meritorious recognition is due. FRANK L. MARTINO. Elected to Legion Post Ralph X. Green, attorney and National party candidate for United States senator, was elected junior , vice-commander of Frank T. Strayer post. Veterans of Foreign Ware. .Wednesday night.

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Candidate Hopes to Swing Hoover Strongholds to His Column. CONFIDENT OF VICTORY Governor Turns for Day From Campaign to Study Own State Matters. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 27.—Franklin D. Roosevelt today turned from his national campaig nto state probhis national campaign to state probarations for his final thrust at the New England states, where his supporters are least confident of victory. Back from an eight-day campaign in past, and south, the Democartic presidential candidate announced he would invade Massachusetts over the week-end, to make a major address in Boston Monday. Proposals to extend the tour as far as Port-, land. Me., were being considered. Roosevelt’s decision to go into New England was prompted by the desire of his managers to unite any factions of the party, particularly in Massachusetts, remaining aloof from him because of the pounds opened by the Chicago convention. •First Stop at Groton The Governor, who will pay his third visit of the campaign to New England, will make his first stop at Groton, Mass., where his two sons, Franklin Jr. and John, are students in Groton school. He had hoped to see the boys play football Saturday, but a broken nose, resulting from a scrimmage, may prevent young Franklin from going into action. Roosevelt w'as optimistic over his tour of the middle west and south, and if any rumors of party disturbance over Alfred E. Smith’s speech at Newark Monday night, or of severe criticism of his own reference to the supreme court in his Baltimore address, reached his ears, he failed to show it.

No Comment on Smith He declined to comment on the Smith speech. “I haven’t read it,” was his only remark. Governor Roosevelt motored to Albany from his Hyde Park home Wednesday night after one of the most strenous days of his campaign, although the twenty-four hours had been marked by an absence of formal speech-making. -lis voice showed signs of strain, but he maintained not only his atmosphere of confidence, but his appearance of health. Vigorously welcomed by party leaders in New York, he promised to ‘ go after not thirty-five or forty states, but forty-eight,”—a forerunner of his later announcement that he would round out his campaign in New England. Confers With House Among leaders with whom he conferred before coming to Albany were Colonel Edward M. House, “silent adviser” of the Wilsdn administration. and Frank Hague of New Jersey, one of the most ardent supporters of Al Smith at the Chicago convention. The staff of the executive mansion greeted him upon his arrival here, and he chatted with them a few minutes before retiring. Today’s program, which brought him back to the problems of his own state government, was a conference with leaders from both parties in the legislature, to discuss possibility of calling -an extra session in November to act on unemployment relief.

MANDATE FOR $50,000 TAX REFUND SOUGHT Probate Judge Asked to Issue Order Against State Board. Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers today was asked to mandate the state, tax board to refund more than $50,000 In taxes alleged to have been collected illegally from the estate of Mrs. Elsie Darlington, wealthy Indianapolis resident, who died in 1929. Executors of the estate, the Indiana Trust Company and a son, Frank Darlington Jr. of Pittsburgh, are seeking the order. They contend the state board has refused to refund the taxes on a $1,400,000 trust left by Mrs. Darlington. Another son. James B. Darlington. lives in Indianapolis. The sons and grandsons shared in the trust created prior to Mrs. Darlington's death. Makes Everything but Living By f nittd Press NEWPORT. Tenn.. Oc*. 3f.—A carpenter here advertises himself to the world: “We make everything here but a living.”

BYSTANDER AT ACCIDENT MAY BE GREATER MENACE THAN RECKLESS AUTOIST

THE "modem epidemic—“automobilitis"—was brought to the front in sesssions of the Interstate Post-Graduate Medical Association of North America in Murat temple today. Before two doctors had finished. the public was told that bystanders at accidents can cause more serious Injury than the driver of the car, if they are not Informed intelligently on first-aid treatment of victims. “The first thing a bystander at an accident, rushing to the aid of someone injured, should do Is ask. 'Where are you hurt?’ *’ declared Dr. William Darrach. dean emeritus of clinical surgery. Columbia university. New York City. "Then if some boards are handy, bind the fractured limb. If they sre. not, then pull outward from

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‘TRIFLES’ SOLVE DEATH RIDDLES Faintest Clew Gives Key to Crime Chief of New York

Chief Norris calls the morgue his Country Club, and here he fools around with various assortments of human fragments. Here also is the scene today of his last conversation with Earl Sparling. And as he talks, there unfold the mysteries of the Greek card game, of the green hat, of the baby In an oven. Epochs all in a great career of public service. BY EARL SPARLING Times Staff Writer • Copvrlght 1932. bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation! CHIEF NORRIS sat in his morgue, which he calls the Country club, close to an assortment of human organs in dismal need of analysis, and talked of the good old days when murder was an easy business in New York City—say. about fifteen years ago. "The old coroner system was pretty bad, old man. Pretty bad. I used to watch the coroner’s physician. He arrived here at the morgue shortly before 8 and was always gone by 8:30. “I zink (the chief because of a lisp can’t pronounce a 'th’>, I zink he had another job and had to get there on time. Christopher Julius! There always were six or eight bodies to examine, sometimes twice that. And the boxes were unlabelled, unnumbered, old man.

It would take half an hour just to find the right boxes. ... I zink if murder didn’t go undetected in those da3's it was only by miracle.” So, in 1918, the city got Doc Norris and anew system. They got the chief for $7,500 a year, a man who had published twentyseven monographs at that time, who had studied in three countries, and half a dozen universities, who had been head of Bellevue laboratories since 1905. The politicians of the town got $12,000 a year, $15,000. $25,000. Dr. Charles Norris got $7,500, and had to pay out of his own pocket for the needed S3O-a-volume German books, and for bacteriologic work, and for the equipment of a real crime laboratory, etc. a a a TTE has given up to $3,000 a -*■ year to make his office what he thinks it should be. He happens to be independently wealthy, wouldn’t have to work at all if he didn't want to. He gets up at 3 o'clock in the morning to look at what an expert hatchet murderer has left, prods around In month-old cadavers which no sensible man would go within three blocks of all because "I zink it is an important job, old man. and some old son of a seacook like me must do it.”

Cost of all high-priced medical books that line the profoundly untidy shelves of the crime laboratory came out of his own pocket. Every month or so he arrives with anew one, some esoteric book of which there are only half a dozen copies in the world. At least two needed technicians have been paid for years out of the same pocket. If a piece of apparatus were needed, something for which “those damned floor-spitting, pi-nochle-playing politicians” could see no use. Doc Norris has dug down and bought it. His salary nevfer has been raised, nor those of his assistants who get only $4,100 a year. But, anyway, murder has become more dangerous for the murderer. There is a legend that the northwest mounted police always get their man. So do Doc Norris and his band of physicians. a a a ITEM: Some Greeks were playing cards in a room at 324 West Fifty-ninth street the night of Sept. 14. 1925. Constantinos Zalianos was stabbed. He accused George Valsopulos, who vamoosed. The stabbed man got well and the police forgot. Doc Norris and pathology did not. Four years later in January, 1929. Zalianos, the stabbed man fell ill and died in Roosevelt hospital. Chief Norris performed an autopsy and declared he had died from the wound received from Valsopulos, Police got busy again, and arrested the latter in Trenton, N. J. The mills had ground slowly, but sure.

But the mills which grind so inexorably at the stenchy, grewsome morgue are touched with mercy. Item: Mrs. Margaret Martinez was arrested in October, 1929, on charge of murdering her 2-months-old baby by smothering it in an oven in her flat at 456 West Eighteenth street. Chief Norris did an autopsy, announced the child had not been smothered, but had died of pneumonia. The mother went free. “Poor woman" sighs the chief, “she felt the child grow cold, the chill of death. I zink she put it in the oven, with the fire unlighted. trying to warm it.” And always there have been mysteries for those who will have such* things. 'aa a ‘ ITEM: On the night of March 9. 1929, a laundryman named Isidore Fmk was found shot dead in his laundry at 42 East 133d

the body on the injured limb continually. “Don’t pick the injured person up and permit the broken arm to dangle. That dangling back and forth causes a secondary injury that may, prove more severe than the original fracture, for it cuts into blood vessels and nerves," Dr. Darrach said. m * m " \ . CHILD run over in the A. street is better left in the street than carried in the fashion that many persons carry them. I know one society for prevention of auto accidents .which showed a poster of a patrolman carrying a child with the broken arm dangling. There s nothing merciful about that poster.’’ he scoffed.

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street. The doors and windows all were locked. There was no mark of a struggle, no weapon, and the neighbors had heard no outcry. “Homicide.” announced the chief after an investigation. The police were stumped. The only way they could figure that out was that the murderer had entered the room by a transom—a regular Rue Morgue murder. “No,” said Chief Norris, “the wounds indicate the man was called to his door. I zink he opened it, became alarmed, tried to shut it on the intruder and was shot. He did manage to get the door bolted. Then he fell dead.” The chief added: “Men do not necessarily die immediately when shot through the heart or head. We have had a case where a man lived eight days with a bullet right through his heart.” That one was simple compared with certain inexplicable events in the 300 block on East Thirtythird street. “There’s one for you, old man,” grumbled Doc Norris. “A mystery. Gonzales handled it (Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, deputy medical examiner). A man was found shot dead in the hall of the fourth floor. A month later another man was found dead in bed on the same floor. He had been shot through the head with a .32-caliber revolver. Gonzales found the bullet imbedded in the pillow. “|imple, eh? Well, wait, old man. In the fellow’s mouth was a rubber tube attached to a gas jet in the wall. Suicide, eh? He turned on the gas and then to make sure shot himself through the head. “Fine, except that the revolver was lying on a table eight feet away. Also, the gas was turned off, there was no odor of gas In the room and the two windows had been opened. a a a “IYyf'URDER, eh? Someone IVI. killed him, then tried to make it look like suicide, but forgot to turn on the gas and forgot to leave the revolver lying near his hand. “The only trouble with that, old man, is that chemical analysis

By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Oct. 27.—Federal economy, with reduction of department of commerce expenses a particular objective, wil be the watchword of Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic candidate for the United States senate, if he is elected, he said here Wednesday night. Van Nuys devoted a major portion of his address to a. discussion of extravagances practiced by the administration while the country is being weighted down more and more by effects of the depression. He scored roundly “any political party -that adopts a platform and after the election proceeds to forget its promises and its convenant with the people.” Upholds $1.50 Tax Law The road to economy in government has been laid .by the $1.50 tax limitation law, Winfield Miller, nominee for re-election as state senator on the Republican ticket, told the ' Irvington Taxpayers’ League Wednesday night. “This law will bring about eco-

Dr. John J. Moorhead, of New York City, took up the attack on automobile death rates and injuries, by declaring it had become an "epidemic.” "This thing is keeping the hospitals of the nation filled during the depression. Twenty pgr cent of the auto deaths are children under 15. Cancer and tuberculosis are running a close race with automobilitis',” he said. “The Saturday and Sunday drivers nearly have ruined the community hospitals that depend on charity funds for sustenance. Persons injured in week-end accidents are brought to the hospitals. They are treated. Yards upon yards of gauze ajid anesthetics are used and the injured walk out of the hospital without paying -a cent.

World-Telegram Staff Photo. Dr. Charles Norris and, left, Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, city toxicologist.

showed 57 per cent gas in his body. He had died by gas. “Then who shot him, Doc, and why? What did you decide?” “We didn’t,” grumbled the chief. “We don’t know what it was. I forgot to add that the door was closed and had a spring lock on it. Also, there was a woman’s green hat on the floor. “Don’t forget the green hat,, old man. A murder mystery always should have a woman’s hat in it.” Mystery and more mystery. The chief's memory and his records are filled with such stuff. It is not that kind of thing, however, that demonstrates what the medical examiner's office can do in a pinch. It is such a relatively unmysterious thing as the death of Mrs. Ruby Gonzales. Mrs. Gonzales, 27, died suddenly Sept. 15, 1927, in the office of a west side doctor. The chief mystery was how the woman happened to be there. “Never saw her before,” said the doctor, an aged fellow, “She’s no patient of mine.” That mystery was cleared up when detectives learned that Dr. Max Isenberg, 23, of 23 West Sixty-eighth street, had borrowed the older doctor’s office. Police arrested Dr. Isenberg on charge of performing an illegal operation. He denied there had been any operation—claimed the woman had died as he was preparing to attend her. “Did you administer chloroform? “No,” said the physician. Which is where he made his mistake.

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nomy, because every penny that is spent over thta figure will be subjected to close scrutiny by the taxpayers, he declared. Warns of Big Deficit A deficit of more than $3,000,000.000 in the federal treasury would result from a continuation of the Hoover administration, declared William H. Larrabee of New Palestine, Democratic candidate for* re-election as Eleventh district representative in congress, in an address at 2345 , 2 Station street, Wednesday night. The federal deficit is increasing not because of increased expenditures, but because of reduced revenues, Larrabee said. Pleads for Chamberlin H. H. Hombrook. attorney, urged re-election of Judge Harry O. Chamberlin at a Republican Second ward meeting, Bellefontaine and Nineteenth streets, Wednesday night. He cited the numerous appointments vested in the circuit judge, including six members of the

* A PORTION of the road or A gasoline tax of states should be apportioned to these hospitals to aid in their upkeep and to prevent them from going into the red because of the automobile accident toll,” Dr. Moorhead said. "Repeal of the. eighteenth amendment will increase the automobile death rate. "Why. do you know.” he added, “that as a surgical professor in a university that I can’t find cases of delirium tremens—D. Tjs—to Show my students and hospital internes under prohibition? 9m* THE potters' field isn’t filled as it was, with the result the medical schdbls are hard put to obtain bodies for autopsies. Men and 'women don’t die unknown as

CHIEF NORRIS made an autopsy, had the brain analyzed by Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, the city toxicologist, and reported there was 156 milligrams oi chloroform. “She must have gotten it somewhere else,” said the defendant. “I didn't give it to her.” That gave the medical examiners’ office another . problem. Would the woman have been able to walk into the office with that much chloroform in her brain? Dr. Gettler found cut by chloroforming half a dozen dogs, some were allowed to normally from anesthesia. It required from thirty to forty-five minutes before they recovered ability to walk. , .Just at that point they were killed and their brains analyzed. Their brains contained about forty-five milligrams each of chloroform. Other dogs were killed while deep in anesthesia. Their brains contained 270 to 284 milligrams of chloroform. Dr. Gettler and Dr. Norris concluded thart Mrs. Gonzales had died while so deeply chloroformed that she was unable to walk. Therefore, she had received the chloroform where she was found dead. was sentenced to serve from seven to twenty years in prison. The other physician was cleared and discharged. He merely had loaned his office to Dr. Isenberg. "I zink.” says Chief Norris, “that where Isenberg made his mistake was in denying he had administered chloroform. I zink that’s where he tripped up, oid man.”

county board of charities; two members of the Marion county board of tax review; three members of the Marion ocunty tax adjustment board of seven members, and members of the jury commission, who draw names for grand jury and county court juries. Negroes Assail Watson Senator James E. Watson was labeled a “weak character,” who let Hoover dictatorship interfere with his fighting for rights of his Negro constituencies in an address by Walter White, secretary of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People. The speech is quoted today in press service of the association. Whirrs attack on Watson was based largely on the Indiana senator’s support of the nomination of Federal Judge John Parker for the United States supreme court. Friends of the Negro and civil liberty advocates defeated Hoover’s attempt to put Parker on the supreme bench, but Watson fought valiantly for him. White points out.

they did before prohibition,” he said. The lowly liver of the porker has taken on anew medical use, asserted Dr. Campbell P. Howard of Montreal, following a diagnostic clinic today, "Due to its cheapness, we have been using pig-liver for feeding patients afflicted with anemia. The high cost of beef and calves’ liver has made this necessary among the poor of Montreal and we are having success with Its use," he said. Liver extract, now widely used for anemia, was discovered by a Boston research worker, Minot, through the report of the observation of patients ttader Dr. Howard’s care. J

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DEMOCRATS’HOPES TO WIN NEW JERSEY GIVEN SEVERE PLOW BY AL SMITH SPEECH High Command Is Heartsick Over Effect of Address Reviving Bigotry Issue: Fear Boston Talk. REACTION MAY HELP IN BAY STATE Stirring of Religious Bitterness May Cost Roosevelt Votes in South, Aid Him in East. BY RAY TUCKER Timet Staff Writer NEWARK, Oct. 27.—A1 Smith's speech reviving the religious issue here has transformed New Jersey into fighting and debatable ground, in the opinion of leading Democratic politicians. It is no secret that the Democratic high command in New Jersey and across the river in New York is sick over the tenor of the 1928 nominee's first national address, and anxiously is awaiting his second speech at Boston tonight. The only consolation is that leaders feel that Roosevelt is too far in the lead to be hurt by any last-minute break. Were it earlier in the campaign Smith's attack on “bigots” and Roosevelt’s Baltimore fling at the supreme court would be set down as bad mistakes.

HOOVER HINTS BIG NAVY NEED * Nation’s Disarmament Failure Warning Issue. Rij T itttrd Prcet WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.—President Herbert Hoover warned Tuesday night that failure of world disarmament efforts abroad would compel the United States to build a navy “equal to that of the most powerful in the w'orld.” The President, in a Navy day statement, said these efforts were making progress. He added their collapse would force this nation to increase its navy because of disturbed world conditions and the necessity of protecting American commerce.

National defense, Mr. Hoover said, is the first and most solemn obligation placed upon the federal government by the Constitution. “Our people have ever been lovers of peace and they have consistently pursued a policy designed to preserve national rights by peaceful negotiations wherever possible rather than' by resort to arms,” the statement said. The President added the administration had spared no efforts to bring about a reduction of world armaments and said: “Our patience in these negotiations has never for a moment jeopardized the safety of the United states.” Mr. Hoover cautioned that vast expenditures would be involved in building the American navy to full strength authorized by the London naval treaty. , DEMOCRATS TO RALLY Beech Grove Town Hall to Be Scene of Party Meeting. A Democratic rally will be held in the Beech Grove town hall at 8 tonight with several speakers and entertainment on the program. The speakers will include Charles Schlosser, attorney; Albert Walsman, nominee for state representative, and Frank Manley, Democratic worker. Verne Pierson, district Democratic leader, will preside.

“For the last two years, apologists for Watson have been telling Negroes that he did not want to vote pressure upon him, as majority for Parker, and did so only because leader in the senate, was exerted by the White House,” White said. Cox’ Election Advocated Election of Earl R. Cox, Democratic nominee for circuit court judge, was urged Wednesday night in a meeting at 114 West Eighteenth street by Carl E. Wood, one of four candidates defeated by Cox In the May primary. Form New G. 0. P. Group Anew Republican campaign organization. the Hoover-Curtis county committee, has been formed and offices opened in the Lincoln, it is announced by Woods A. Caperton, chairman. Purpose of the organization is to re-elect President Hoover and elect the entire Republican ticket. Mrs. Edward L. McKee is co-chairman and Mrs. Grace Urbahns Reynolds, former state treasurer, is executive secretary.

ST. LOUIS has been selected as the next convention city of the association. Anew $5,000,000 auditorium in the Missouri town will be opened by the association when it meets in October of 1933, Dr. William J. Mayo of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn., took up the gavel of presidency of the organization this afternoon. The new president-elect is Dr. John M. T. Finney of Johns Hopkins university. Baltimose. Other officers are: Dr. Tom V. Throckmorton, secretary: Dr. Henry G. Langworthy, Dubuque, la., treasurer: Dr. William B. Peck, permanent managing director. Dr. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester. Minn., and Dr. Edward W. Archibald. Montreal, are directfrs of clinics.

But there is nothing to be done except meet the new situation with silence. Smith is a political free-lance and not amenable to orders or suggestions.

Jersey and national leaders also comfort themselves with the belief that the reaction to Al’s talk will be divided. In the southern and western states, where revival of religious bitterness may cost votes, the Democrats feel they can afford to lose them. Helps in Massachusetts But in New York and New England. where Roosevelt needs support among Smith's admirers and wets, it is felt the 1928 nominee may have rendered service. Reports from Massachusetts Indicate it has pleased the element which gave the state to Smith in 1928. Moreover, the Democrats say Smith’s frank discussion of the prohibition issue has helped them where they need it. For weeks, they point out, the Republicans have been evading or submerging the issue. They have created the impression that both parties are wet, that the issue is moving toward definite settlement, and that It has no part in the campaign. Such Republicans as Senators David A. Reed of Pennsylvania and Hiram Bingham of Connecticut are promising “beer in six months,” despite Hoover's failure to say whether he would sign a bill repealing or modifying the Volstead act. Harm in New Jersey Smith, the Democrats believe, has made it clear that beer and actual repeal can come more quickly through election of Roosevelt and Garner. The New Jersey situation best, illustrates the harm Smith’s address may have done. The state always is almost Republican in presidential years. Smith lost it by about 308,000, despite his appeal to the wets. But it has swung sharply to the Democratic side since 1908 largely because of dissatisfaction with Hoover’s economic and business record and difficulties confronting its industries. It can be carried by the Democrats only, however, if about 160.000 brokers and business men employed in New York and sleeping in New Jersey, vote for Roosevelt. This group is wet, tolerant and rather independent in its views, though inclined to be Republican for economic reasons.

It was this type of voter which put over the late Dwight W. Morrow as senator, and swung behind Woodrow Wilson. It had been the Democrats’ expectation they would get this vote. But tile fear is that Smith's tactics may have alienated them. All Bets Off Frank Hague, Smith’s floor manager and national committeeman, is working loyally fc? Roosevelt. Although he told the convention delegates that Roosevelt could not carry the state, he since has predicted a Roosevelt plurality of 200.000. Republicans insist they will squeeze through by a narrow margin. Indications have been that"; despite all polls, that the Democrats would win the state, but all bets are off since Smith’s speech, according to private expressions of men around Hague himself. Hoover’s Invasion Monday also may help him, although the Democrats are planning to send into this territory such conservatives as Owen D. Young and Melvin A. Travlor to counteract the effect of Al’s outburst.

CHARGE PUMPKIN THEFT Three Indianapolis Yonths Are Taken to Danville for Trial. Charged with stealing a car load of pumpkins from a farm near Brownsburg, Wednesday, three Indianapolis youths were taken to Danville today for trial on larceny charges. They are Joe Kellar, 18. of 1715 Arrow street: Lloyd Merrell, 18. of 2514 Brookside avenue, and Miles Shipp. 17, of 1614 East Sixteenth street. AUTO SHOW DATE SET Annual Exposition Will Be Held Feb. 4 to 11 at Fairground. . Annual show of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association Fill be held Feb. 4 to 11, inclusive, at the state fairground, it is announced by £. G. Henry, manager.